“When I say cut taxes, I
don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and
replace them with nothing.” —Dr. Ron Paul[3]

"The
other day, I made a huge "gaffe" on national TV: I told the truth about the
crimes of the U.S. government. As you can imagine, the ceiling fell in, and
a couple of walls too. Congressmen are supposed to support the government, I
was told. Oh, it's okay to criticize around the edges, but there are certain
subjects a member of the House of Representatives is not supposed to bring
up. But I touched the real "third-rail" of American politics, and the sparks
sure flew.

I was interviewed on C-SPAN's morning
"Washington Journal," and I used the opportunity, as I do all such media
appearances, to point out how many of our liberties have been stolen by the
federal government. We must take them back. The Constitution, after all, has
a very limited role for Washington, D.C. If we stuck to the Constitution as
written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal
Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid.
We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American
troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GATT, or "fast-track"; no
arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private
property; and no income tax. We could get rid of most of the cabinet
departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government
would be small, frugal, and limited. That system is called liberty. It's
what the Founding Fathers gave us.

Under liberty, we built the greatest, freest,
most prosperous, most decent country on earth. It's no coincidence that the
monstrous growth of the federal government has been accompanied by a
sickening decline in living standards and moral standards. The feds want us
to be hamsters on a treadmill--working hard, all day long, to pay high
taxes, but otherwise entirely docile and controlled. The huge, expensive,
and out-of-control leviathan that we call the federal government wants to
run every single aspect of our lives. Well, I'm sorry, but that's not
America. It's not what the Founders gave us. It's not the country you
believe in. It's not the country I believe in.

So, on that TV interview, I emphasized not only
the attacks on our property, but also the decline of our civil liberties, at
the hands of the federal police. There are not supposed to be any federal
police, according to the Constitution. Then I really went over the line. I
talked about the Waco massacre. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno claim those 81
church members, including 19 children, burned down their own church and
killed themselves, and good riddance. So they put few survivors on trial,
and threw them in prison for 40 years. We're not supposed to remember that
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms--talk about an unconstitutional
agency--rather than arrest David Koresh on his regular morning jog, called
in the TV stations for big publicity bonanza, and sent a swat team in black
masks and black uniforms to break down his front door, guns blazing.

They
also sent in a helicopter gunship, to shoot at the roof of a church full of
innocents. The Branch Davidians resisted, and after a heartless siege of
almost two months, and after cutting off food, water, and electricity, and
playing horrible rock and roll through huge speakers 24 hours a day, the
feds sent in the tanks to crush the walls of the church, and inject
poisonous CS gas. Now, CS gas is banned under the Paris Convention on
Chemical Warfare. The U.S. could not use it in a war. But it could and did
use it against American civilians. After the tanks did their work on the
church, the place burst into flame, and all 81 people--men, women, children,
and babies - were incinerated in a screaming horror. Did some feds set the
fire? Did the flammable CS gas ignite, since without electricity, the
parishioners were using lanterns? Did a tank knock over a lantern, striking
one of the bales of hay being used against the thin walls as a "defense"
against bullets? Or did the Davidians, as Clinton and Reno claim, kill
themselves?

A new documentary—Waco:
The Rules of Engagement—may show, through FLIR infrared photography, FBI snipers killing
the Davidians by shooting through the back of the church, where no media
cameras were allowed. This film won a prize at the famed Sundance Film
Festival. It was made by people who took the government's side, until they
investigated. Whatever the truth, there's no question that an irresponsible
federal government has innocent blood on its hands, and not only from Waco.
And the refusal of corrupt and perverse liberals to admit it means nothing.

In my interview, in answer to a caller's
question, I pointed out that Waco, and the federal murders at Ruby Ridge-
especially the FBI sniper's shot that blasted apart the head of a young
mother holding her baby- caused many Americans to live in fear of federal
power. Then I uttered the sentiment that caused the media hysteria: I said
that a lot of Americans fear that they too might be attacked by federal swat
teams for exercising their constitutional rights, or merely for wanting to
be left alone. Whoa! You've never seen anything like it.

For days, in an
all-out assault, I was attacked by Democrats, unions, big business,
establishment Republicans, and- of course- the media, in Washington and my
home state of Texas. Newspapers foamed at the mouth, calling me a
"right-wing extremist." (Say, isn't that what George III called Thomas
Jefferson?) I was even blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing! And by the way,
I don't believe we've gotten the full truth on that either. All my many
opponents were outraged that a Congressman would criticize big government.
"If you don't like Washington, resign!" said a typical big-city newspaper
editorial. But the media, as usual, were all wet. (Do they ever get anything
right?)

The average Congressman may go to Washington to wallow in power, and
line his pockets with a big lobbying job for a special interest (so he can
keep ripping-off the taxpayers). But that's not why I'm in Congress. It's
not why I left my medical practice as a physician. It's not why I put up
with all the abuse. It's not why I refuse a plush Congressional pension. I'm
in this fight for a reason. I want to hand on to my children and
grandchildren, and to you and your family, a great and free America, an
America true to her Constitution, an America worthy of her history. I will
not let the crooks and clowns and criminals have their way.

I'm in Congress to represent the ideas of
liberty, the ideas that you and I share, for the people of my district, for
the people of Texas, for the people of America. That's why I'm working to
stop federal abuses, and to cut the government: its taxes, its bureaucrats,
its paramilitary police, its spending, its meddling overseas, and every
single unconstitutional action it takes. And not with a pair of nail
scissors, but with a hammer and chisel. Won't you help me do this work? Not
much of the federal leviathan would be left, if I had my way.

But you'd be
able to keep the money you earn, your privacy would be secure, your dollar
would be sound, your local school would be tops, and your kids wouldn't be
sent off to some useless or vicious foreign war to fight for the UN. But
Jefferson and the other Founders would recognize our government, and our
descendants would bless us. By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean
fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace
them with nothing.

Recently, I asked a famous Republican committee
chairman- who's always talking about getting rid of IRS- why he engineered a
secret $580 million raise for the tax collectors. "They need it for their
computers," this guy told me. So the IRS can't extract enough from us as it
is! The National Taxpayers Union says I have the highest pro-taxpayer rating
in Congressional history, that I am the top "Taxpayer's Best Friend." You
know I won't play the Capitol Hill games with the Capitol Hill gang,
denouncing the IRS while giving the Gestapo more of your money. Or figuring
out some other federal tax for them to squeeze out of you. I also want to
abolish the Federal Reserve, and send Alan Greenspan out to get a job. The
value of our dollar and the level of our interest rates are not supposed to
be manipulated by a few members of the power elite meeting secretly in a
marble palace.

The Federal Reserve is unconstitutional, pure and simple. The
only Constitutional money is gold and silver, not notes redeemable in them.
Not fed funny money. Without the Federal Reserve, our money could not be
inflated at the behest of big government or big banks. Your income and
savings would not lose their value. Just as important, we wouldn't have this
endless string of booms and busts, recessions and depressions, with each
bust getting worse. They aren't natural to the free market; they're caused
by the schemers at the Fed. President Andrew Jackson called the 19th-century
Fed "The Monster" because it was a vehicle for inflation and all sorts of
special-interest corruption. Let me tell you, things haven't changed a bit.

I also work to save our schools from D.C.
interference. Thanks to the feds, new curriculums not only smear the
Founders as "racist, slave-owning elitists," they seek to dumb down our
students so they will all be equal. "Look-say" reading and the abolition of
phonics has the same purpose, and so does the new "fuzzy" math, in which
there are no right and no wrong answers. That must be what they use in the
U.S. Treasury! It's certainly what they use in the U.S. Congress. But ever
since the beginning of federal aid to education and accelerating with the
establishment of the rotten Department of Education, SAT scores have been
dropping. Schools, with few exceptions, are getting worse every year. To
save our kids, we must get the sticky fingers of the feds off our local
schools, and let parents rule. That's what the Constitution says, and the
Bible too.

And then there's my least favorite topic, the
UN. World government is obviously unconstitutional. It undermines our
country's sovereignty in the worst way possible. That's why I want us out of
the UN, and the UN itself taking a hike. After all, the UN is socialist and
corrupt (many votes can be bought with a "blonde and a case of scotch," one
UN ambassador once said). It costs many billions, and it puts our soldiers
in UN uniforms under foreign commanders, and sends them off to
unconstitutional, undeclared wars. When Michael New, one of the finest young
men I've ever met, objected to wearing UN blue, he was kicked out of the
American Army.

What an outrage! Not one dime for the UN, and not one
American soldier! Not in Haiti, not in Bosnia, not in Somalia, not in
Rwanda. I know its radical, but how about devoting American military efforts
to defending America, and only America? Such ideas, said one newspaper
reporter, make me a maverick who will never go far because he won't go along
to get along. Darn right! What does "go far" mean? Get a big government job?
To heck with that. And I won't sell my vote for pork either.

When I walked through the U.S. Capitol this
morning, I got angry. The building is filled with statues and painting of
Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founders. Those great men sacrificed
everything to give us a free country, and a Constitution to keep it that
way. When I was first elected, I placed my hand on the Bible and swore an
oath to uphold the Constitution. That's exactly what I'm fighting for. But
such ideas drive the liberals crazy. That's why I badly need your help. I've
been targeted nationally for defeat. The Democrats, the AFL-CIO, the
teachers union, big business PACs, the trial lawyers, the big bankers, the
foreign-aid lobbyists, the big media, and the establishment Republicans want
to dance on my political grave.

The Fed, the Education Department, and the
UN are anxious to join in. They can't stand even one person telling the
truth. And they're terrified when that truth gains the people's support.
Right now, four well-funded Democrats are competing to try to beat me, and a
Republican is rumored to have been offered money at a secret meeting in
Mexico(!) if he would try to knock me off in a primary.……

Join this fight for the Constitution, and stop
those who want to rip it up, and throw it in the Potomac.

Together, we can join the Founders' fight.
Together, we can make history. "